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Tuesday, February 22, 2022
Blocking a Stratocaster tremolo
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Here's a quick project where I blocked the tremolo (whammy bar) on a Stratocaster using basic tools. This will lock the tremolo in place...
Saturday, March 21, 2020
Guitar Scales - Explained!
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This post will explain how to see the simple pattern in the guitar fretboard. Part 1: At first glance, this probably looks fairly confu...
Thursday, August 2, 2018
Simplest Quick Sort Algorithm
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A lot of quicksort implementations are hard to follow, because the indexes are shifted around slightly (+1 or -1). Here's the most intu...
Friday, February 5, 2016
Ubuntu Mate
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I've been testing out Ubuntu Mate 15.10, and it may be my new favorite Linux distro for the desktop. :-) It's very simple and cl...
Wednesday, December 2, 2015
Edge/Collision Detection in ASCII character templates - Part 2
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I experimenting with edge detection in ASCII characters, to use for manipulating text data (for example, creating mazes). Here was Part I:...
Saturday, November 28, 2015
Irregular maze generator (from ASCII tessellation) - Part 1
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I wanted to write a generalized ASCII maze generator which could create a unlimited variety of tessellations. So I first created a parse...
Wednesday, November 25, 2015
Command line tool to create and parse text outlines - revisited
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A while back I posted a quick script for creating text outlines on the command line (for example, in Vim). I like keeping all my documenta...
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